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Refusal and unlearning safeguards in open-weight LLMs can be removed with a few fine-tuning steps.

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Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMsAug 1, 2024 Untraced · nothing upstream recorded

For example, recent works have demonstrated that refusal and unlearning safeguards can be trivially removed with a few steps of fine-tuning.

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Abstract; motivating the need for tamper-resistant safeguards against weight-modifying attacks.

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